Posts Tagged ‘identity theft tips’

My sister moved from TX to VA to stay with me in 2007 after graduating high school. She moved back home like 6 months later. Now 4 yrs later she tried to get a car, she said her credit was flagged in VA, now im being accused of identity theft!! She's had 2 jobs up here, a cell phone, and even applied for college!! I dont even have her social! Im insulted and heartbroken, (more…)

What are things you do in everyday life that prevent identity theft?I have my name on all my cards without my middle initial, I do not sign the back. It says see photo ID. My legal signature ALWAYS has my middle initial on it. So if there is ever a dispute, I win! I ALWAYS take my mail containing checks to the post office. The red flag you pull up for the postman is (more…)

Well I pretty much know someone got a loan, im assuming they used my social? I was going to get a phone with at&t and had to answer a few questions to see if i would qualify or not. 2 of the questions were if i ever got a car loan or house loan. I said no…but it came back incorrect. She was asking me if i was sure and i was completley positive. (more…)

ok, so i bought my laptop last christmas and its a window 7 home premium installed already, and now today, it suddenly popped up a window that from Microsoft, and an agent in microsoft said that they found “suspicious” activities on my computer and that i have to give him my verification by give him the billing address and a credit card number or otherwise they will (more…)

I ran into a problem while filling out information to get my free credit report.
The website I was using is truecredit.com (it is what wells fargo recommended I use). I couldn't verify my identity online so I had to call customer service. They asked for my social security number, I was skeptical, but the website did say that they would need that to get (more…)

I have been doing research for a synthesis paper and my topic is identity theft. This is my first time doing a synthesis paper and it seems hard. My teacher says we need at least 8-9 sources, in which we have to summarize the source and analyze it. What I chose to argue was…what does the government do to prevent identity theft. And while I was researching (more…)

Is there to track accounts etc. that are in my name using my Soc. Num.?

I think my identity has been stolen. The police did nothing and the credit beauraus did nothing much because most of the activity is not listed with my credit, its in in the Chex system (morgages, bad checks etc. ) I found this out through my bank when I tried to get an account and they asked me if I had a house and account in (more…)

I applied for a job on Craigslist last week and I got an e-mail back. They told me I needed a credit report before they could set up an interview. All I gave them was an order number from the creditreport.com site. It was indeed stupid and I canceled the order and everything. Will they still be able to go get into my credit history? The lady from customer service assured (more…)

This is serious. Every 3.5 seconds in the United States, someone's identity is stolen. Unfortunately, many view identity theft as an 'online' only problem. It's true that phishing scams, Trojans, and other forms of cyber-crime are a factor, but there are also far more low tech means of identity theft – including digging (more…)

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